Just Zoogling Around

Comment by Craig Swag (Guest)

Craig Swag (Guest) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:29:17 +0000

Zoogle is an old, Native American game

Comment by Tara (Guest)

Tara (Guest) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:31:08 +0000

Well, Zoogle has made it bigger than you think. I have no earthly idea what they are but my son (a 1st grader) just brought home a form today for me to get him a Zoogle. They are $10 each. I decided to Google it to see what it is before I sent the money in to school. They are selling them in the gym.

Comment by randy timmons (Guest)

randy timmons (Guest) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:34:50 +0000

Ive often wondered what ever happened to willie.Iam the fist winner of the zoogle competition,held by Pizza King,&ball State.I won a schwinn bicycle&1,000 dollers.THANKS WILLIE.RANDY TIMMONS

Comment by Hailee (Guest)

Hailee (Guest) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:16:35 +0000

The Zoogle Man came to my high school today. My friend and I had a lot of fun with it. It seems like a sorta kiddie toy, but us sophomores, and the freshman, had a blast. I don't know if he was selling them or not, but if he was I didn't get a chance to buy one. I really really want one! Can anyone tell me where to get one? E-mail me at hsesney@yahoo.com

Greatly appreciated,
Hailee.

Comment by G. Bills (Guest)

G. Bills (Guest) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:51:09 +0000

The Zoogle lives on. It showed up at my sons camp in P.A. this summer. One of the counslers there ( Will Armond) played it as a kid somewhere in the mid west. He somehow got in touch with the Zoogle guy and got about 100 of them shipped to camp. The camp has a website with daily pictures and a Today show video Blog. They viewed how Zoogle was taking over the camp. Major competition was going on at camp Canadensis this summer. On visiting day my son was only interested in when 1pm. was because they had 100 Zoogles to sell to the first come. $8 or $10 later my kid got one. He's loving it and has some amazing nija style of playing the game.
Great hand eye game for ball players to increase reaction time.
Bring back Zoogle in 2009. It's the perfect time.

Comment by Leah (Guest)

Leah (Guest) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:43:39 +0000

My bestest friend LOVES the zoogle. He tried to teach me this past winter, but it was kinda in a cramped space. i've gotta get him outside to play with me again. "dude! i lost my leg!"

Comment by mary (Guest)

mary (Guest) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:30:06 +0000

I have a zoogle that belongs to my son who is 22 years old . I am glad that I saved it as of today I am using it for pt on my arms to help me get use of them again

Comment by Joe (Guest)

Joe (Guest) — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:59:56 +0000

The zoogle guy was at the primary school yesterday trying to sell them for $10 each. How lame! Who the hell pays that much for a stick?

Comment by Lee Caudill (Guest)

Lee Caudill (Guest) — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:18:36 +0000

Willie Caudill is my uncle. I'm surprised too that this many people remember it/know it. Here is a cool picture I just scanned in with Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?!) playing zoogle. http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqKcMDJ Anywho, if anyone would like the original 1979 instructions, I was getting ready to scan them in for one of my buddies if anyone else would like to see them, just email me at lmc@blacktoprevival.com or the email I entered above.

Comment by Stadiem (Guest)

Stadiem (Guest) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:18:16 +0000

The Zoogle man is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet and Zoogle is really fun. It was actually a fully endorsed sport on one of the ESPN networks for a while. I'd love to get another Zoogle stick. It's a shame they didn't make it to mass production. I hope that that guy is happy where ever he is.

Comment by Jeff (Guest)

Jeff (Guest) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:02:52 +0000

The Zoogle man was at my School yesterday. The kid's went wild over this Zoogle stick. I have had over two hundred kids want an order form, I even had some kid's already pay for theirs.

Comment by Charles (Guest)

Charles (Guest) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:56:44 +0000

Pay for a Zoogle stick? Rediculous. Hehe. I've always made mine out of nice piece of wood/bamboo, whatever. Although a burning piece of wood pulled out of a fire always worked nicely. :]

Comment by Kris (Guest)

Kris (Guest) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:20:37 +0000

I have a zoogle. The Zoogle Man had polio as a child and invented the zoogle so that kids with disabilities could play an active game as well. Mine is purple! I got it when I was 10 or so....now i'm 27!

Comment by Ken (Guest)

Ken (Guest) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:20:38 +0000

My kids ended up with some Zoogles this year too. Mr. Will Caudill, the very same man with one short leg, visited our school.

For those insterested, here's contact info for the Zoogle Man (taken from an order sheet sent home from the school):

ZOOGLE, Inc.
7214 Highland Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46268-2214
317-293-9363

Each stick is $10. Child and adult sizes are available. Color choices are Orange, Green, Blue, Red, Purple, and Pink.

Comment by Kate (Guest)

Kate (Guest) — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:50:51 +0000

Hi. My sister bought all the nieces and nephews zoogle sticks for Christmas this year. I have been searching for rules and have had no luck. I see Lea and Bill explained some of the rules. Can someone email me the rules? I would love to get the kids away from that Playstation for awhile. Thanks. Kateharu@aol.com

Comment by Bill Wilson (Guest)

Bill Wilson (Guest) — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:43:17 +0000

I met the Zoogle guys back in 1978 at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. My friend and I played all the time on the Lake Erie beach and always attracted lots of attention. We moved up to Boston in 1979 and played all the time at the Boston Commons. We became quite good at the game and always attracted crowds any time that we played. Great game of eye/hand coordination. If you hit the opponent in the arm or leg they lost the use of that limb. You would literally have to play on one leg. The idea was that handicapped individuals would be able to lose their good arm or leg twice to allow a level playing field. Also all Zoogles were made by handicapped individuals as mentioned by Lea. I thought they made a smaller version called a Zookie???

Comment by josh (Guest)

josh (Guest) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:12:09 +0000

I love the zoogle, i have been trying to find one to buy! I want to play again. i think the last time i played was 8yrs ago when mying broke! If anyone has one for sale or knows of any that still are for sale let me know!

- Josh

Comment by Chad (Guest)

Chad (Guest) — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:22:17 +0000

Zoogle rocks! We had a visit from the 'zoogle man' back in 1993 at a YMCA camp in southern missouri. All the kids bought them and the counselors would have tournaments. I googled zoogle (say that 10 times fast) to see if I could find one somewhere. Oh the memories...

Comment by Ken

Ken — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:02:31 +0000

Wow. I'm stunned that other people had Zoogles. My sister and I thought we were probably the only people in the world who had them.

Comment by lea governale (Guest)

lea governale (Guest) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:10:45 +0000

Do you really have a zoogle! My ex husband was a partner in the company Zoogle and it really was a game that they promoted all around the country. He is dead now and I have been searching to find one. The game was indeed invented by a carnie who was handicapped and my husband's good friend John Powers had them manufactured by hadicapped people in the midwest somewhere. We lived in New Jersey and spent much of our time in the late seventies promoting the game in parks and events all around the northeast. They never sold the game to a major toy manufaturer and the thing just fizzled out but they innvested a lot of money in it, in fact all that they had in the game hoping that it would catch on. Unfortunatley video games were just beginning to make hit with toy manufaturers at that time.

Comment by Brian R (Guest)

Brian R (Guest) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:04:03 +0000

Dude, I played zoogle and also met the zoogle man. He was a guy that had one leg shorter than the other and could not play normal sports so he inventend this game that involved no movement of the legs. The rules were you had to keep both feet planted on the ground. In the game you play to 7. The first throw he threw at me hit me in the chest and arm and rebounded to my head. He killed me in one throw. That dude was crazy.

Comment by Ken

Ken — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 22:11:26 +0000

Oh, that sucks. :o(

Comment by Sonja (Guest)

Sonja (Guest) — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:56:39 +0000

Yeah, I hate to burst your bubble, but we went to Organized Living yesterday, and it looked like it had been ransacked already by every borderline-neurotic organizer person in the greater Raleigh area. Good like finding anything left to liquidate. (We came away with a shower caddy and a laundry basket, but not the desk organizers I was hoping for. Oh well.)

Comment by Crouching Hamster (Guest)

Crouching Hamster (Guest) — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:25:44 +0000

IFC is probably on a big marketing campaign. Last weekend they opened their first theater in the West Village (the old Waverly). http://www.ifccenter.com/index I walked past it but haven't been there yet.

Comment by Timothy Ross (Guest)

Timothy Ross (Guest) — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:28:08 +0000

What is with IFC. A week ago I had never heard of it and now I see it everywhere I turn.

Comment by Julie (Guest)

Julie (Guest) — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:10:23 +0000

ooh, i LOVED reservoir dogs. much like with clerks, it was all downhill from there. despite what pulp fiction proponents may have you believe.

Just Zoogling Around

Ken — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:34:14 +0000

Hmm, I think I feel myself turning into a mass of jelly.